Opening leg winner Jasmine Shekar on her way into the lead at the DLF leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour in Gurgaon on Wednesday. Image courtesy WGAI.
By Rahul Banerji
Jasmine Shekar led the way after round one of the fifth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon on Wednesday.
Opening leg winner Jasmine returned a 2 under par 70 despite two late bogeys for a one-shot lead over All India Ladies champion Lavanya Gupta (71), the WGAI said.
Mannat Brar, who was in good touch late last season, was sole third on level par 72, as only three players shot par or better on the challenging Gary Player layout.
A record field of 57 players with 49 professionals is vying for a Rs. 18 lakh purse.
Already the event has seen some young names hold their own despite the presence of some of the better-known names.
Behind Jasmine, Lavanya and Mannat, Vidhatri Urs, Lavanya Jadon and Jahnavi Prakhya carded 2 over 74s to share fourth place.
Jasmine opened with four pars and a birdie on Par-3 fifth and added four more pars to make a turn in a bogey-free 1 under.
Few blemishes
On the back nine, she birdied hole 11 to go 2 under and dropped a shot for the first time on 14 before getting it back on 15.
A second bogey on 16 was cancelled with birdie on 18 to ensure a 2 under card for the day.
Lavanya showed why she is so highly rated as she was 3 under after 12 holes and 3 under after 16 before closing bogey-bogey to drop to 71.
Mannat had two birdies against one bogey on the front nine and then had two bogeys and a closing birdie on the back nine.
Amandeep Drall (75) and Saanvi Somu (75) shared seventh place with Khushi Khanijau, Anvvi Dahhiya, Nayanika Sanga, Durga Nittur and Gauri Karhade.
Former Hero Order of Merit winner Sneha Singh (76) was 14th while Tvesa Malik, was T15 with a 77.
Fourth leg winner Ridhima Dilawari (78) was T19 and had no birdies as she bogeyed four times and double bogeyed once.
Scores and round 2 tee times
9 am: Ravjot K. Dosanjh 87, Esther Lobo 87
9:10 am: Ananya Datar 87, Yashita Raghav 86
9:20 am: Ceerat Kang (A) 86, Karishma Govind 86, Agrima Manral 86
9:30 am: Prarthana Khanna 84, Riddhima Singh (A) 84, Jia Kochhar 84
9:40 am: Snigdha Goswami 83, Ananya Garg 83, Rashi Mishra (A) 82
9:50 am: Jahaanvie Walia 82, Priya Kumari (A) 82, Anvitha Narender 82;
10:05 am: Sachika Singh 82, Anisha Agarwalla 81, Smriti Bhargav 81
10:15 am: Shagun Narain 81, Seher Atwal 81, Rhea Purvi 81
10:25 am: Alysha Dutt (A) 81, Heena Kang 80, Shrestha Shukla 80
10:35 am: Anaggha Venkatesh 80, Afshan Fatima 80, Yaalisai Verma 80
10:50 am: Mahreen Bhatia (A) 78, Aradhana Manikandan (A) 78, Neha Tripathi 78
11 am: Ridhima Dilawari 78, Anahita Singh 78, Jiah Kang 78
11:10 am: Shweta Mansingh 77, Tvesa Malik 77, Eti Chaudhary 77
11:20 am: Jahanvi Bakshi 77, Sneha Singh 76, Gauri Karhade 75
11:35 am: Amandeep Drall 75, Durga Nittur 75, Saanvi Somu 75
11:45 am: Nayanika Sanga 75, Anvvi Dahhiya 75, Khushi Khanijau 75
11:55 am: Jahnavi Prakhya 74, Lavanya Jadon 74, Vidhatri Urs 74
12:05 pm: Mannat Brar 72, Lavanya Gupta (A) 71, Jasmine Shekar 70
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